kevin_standlee | Entries tagged with mouse

After a day of extreme discomfort where I spent about 16 hours alternating between my bed (where I could lie on my side, it being the only way I could get comfortable) and the bathroom, I am more or less back to normal. I'm going to get another dose of magnesium citrate, though, and stay close to home for most of today. OTOH, I felt good enough this morning to walk to the Wigwam for breakfast. There, I had the opportunity to thank Dawn, my regular server, for how nicely she treated Kayla on Thursday.

Thursday night, the humane trap in the kitchen started rattling again. That sound is usually due to a mouse trying to gnaw its way out of the metal trap. So it was time to escort the mouse out of the house again.

( Another Day, Another Mouse )

I don't really care where these mice go as long as they don't come back to the house.

Current Mood: okay
Current Location: Fernley, Nevada

Yesterday morning, it was very quiet as I was working at my desk in the living room. From the kitchen I heard a faint rattling noise. From previous experience, I knew what that probably meant. Putting on my work gloves, I went to the kitchen and hefted the humane mouse trap, from which I could hear skittering sounds. As is my usual practice, I took the box out into the rail yard and opened it. No picture this time because the mouse immediately jumped out of the trap and headed for cover. I don't mind mice in general, but I don't want them in the house. Let them take their chances with the cats and hawks out there.

Meanwhile, I wasn't kidding when I said yesterday that I felt exhausted. Right after work I fell into bed and slept for almost six hours. I felt better after that, and got another four hours overnight.

Current Mood: working
Current Location: Fernley, Nevada

This morning as I started work at 4 AM, I heard a metallic clatter from the kitchen. A mouse was caught in the "Tin Cat" humane mousetrap in the kitchen. I waited until after sunrise, then put on gloves and took the box with the mouse inside it across the street into the railroad yard in order to release it into the field.

( Good Luck and Don't Come Back )

I left the mouse to try its luck with the local predators like the small hawks I see in the area. If that mouse comes back and gets caught again, though, I'm going to take it down the street to the abandoned house that is home to a colony of feral cats and let it take its chances with them.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: Fernley, Nevada

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